New England Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Railway bridge.
New England Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- other-entrance-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- New England Viaduct, New England Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 309 053
- Coordinates
- 50.83313, -0.14238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New England Viaduct is a railway bridge built in 1839. It features a foundation stone laid that year and is constructed from yellow brick set in English bond, with stone dressings on the east and west faces, while the rest is made of red brick in English bond. The design resembles a triumphal arch, with a central round-arched opening for the road, flanked by narrower and lower pedestrian arches.
On either side of these arches, there are Doric pilasters: the bases are made of stone, the shafts of brick, and the capitals are stone as well. The entablature includes a frieze of brick. The arches have a stone springing band that runs back through the depth of the arch, a brick archivolt, and a stone keystone. The cornice is missing on the western side, and there is additional ironwork on the eastern side. The parapet has been rebuilt on both sides.
On the eastern side, the bridge is flanked by yellow brick returns, followed by retaining walls in yellow brick that are topped with stone and extend down to corniced piers. This viaduct was part of the first railway line into Brighton and was widened on the west side in the 1860s.
Local climate
New England Viaduct receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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